Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device for augmenting the thrust of a jet engine by burning additional fuel with the uncombined oxygen in the exhaust gases.
- noun A device for burning or chemically altering unburned or partially burned carbon compounds in exhaust gases.
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- noun A device in the
engine of anaircraft whichinjects fuel into theexhaust system to increase thethrust .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust
Etymologies
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Examples
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MSI's R5770-PMD1G differentiates itself from the fold through its exclusive ability to support the "afterburner" overclocking utility, which not only manages the GPU voltage but also modifies the fan speed according to the temperature.
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This is interesting as it allows to mix foreign binaries with native ones, see "afterburner" in my next blog posting.
Sun Bloggers KayRamme 2009
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This is interesting as it allows to mix foreign binaries with native ones, see "afterburner" in my next blog posting.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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"afterburner" affect to push the creatine into the muscle cells faster or with more "force".
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010
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"MSI R5770-PMD1G supports the over voltage function of GPU by MSI exclusive overclocking utility 'afterburner', and the maximum overclocking voltage will be up to 1. 300V.
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QEMU, leading to build times of about 24h, which may be pushed to under 5h, if applying some "afterburner": -).
Sun Bloggers 2009
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I may give details regarding the "afterburner" in one of my next blog postings: -)
Sun Bloggers 2009
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I may give details regarding the "afterburner" in one of my next blog postings: -)
Sun Bloggers KayRamme 2009
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But when I lived in Fakenham I was always surprised to see US jets screaming very low and very fast across Fakenham, going in to steep climbs (needing an afterburner and making lots of noise) and failing to do what the RAF routinely do, which is to fly around towns.
Archive 2009-08-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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At the very least, I'd like to give his testicles a squeeze for sharking my plasma afterburner design. —
‘FlashForward’ Episode 1.10 Recap: ‘A561984′ » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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